av.meta
Class ClassPathLoader

java.lang.Object
  av.meta.ClassPathLoader

All Implemented Interfaces:

MetaLoader

public class ClassPathLoader
extends Object
implements MetaLoader

A MetaLoader implementation that loads resources from the java classpath.

Note: This loader don't search resources under a URL CodeBase (i.e. an applet's codebase) to improve loading performance.

Author:

Compl

Constructor Summary

ClassPathLoader()
A ClassPathLoader without a specified ClassLoader will try the current thread's context class loader on each resource query.

ClassPathLoader(ClassLoader cl)
Construct a ClassPathLoader with an explicit class loader specified.

Method Summary

InputStream

getMetaResourceAsStream(String id) This will try loading a resource named id from local java class path entries.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ClassPathLoader

public ClassPathLoader()

A ClassPathLoader without a specified ClassLoader will try the current thread's context class loader on each resource query.

ClassPathLoader

public ClassPathLoader(ClassLoader cl)

Construct a ClassPathLoader with an explicit class loader specified.

Parameters:

cl - a specific class loader used to load resources

Method Detail

getMetaResourceAsStream

public InputStream getMetaResourceAsStream(String id)

This will try loading a resource named id from local java class path entries.

Specified by:

getMetaResourceAsStream in interface MetaLoader

Parameters:

id - calculated as above

Returns:

the read stream for the resource exactly matches id, null otherwise.